Exhibit No. 99(b)

                     News Release Issued by 
           Boise Cascade Corporation on May 18, 1994,
announcing the Company's Canadian subsidiary, Rainy River Forest
Products Inc., formerly named Boise Cascade Canada Ltd., filed a
preliminary prospectus in Canada for an initial public offering
of equity securities and, at the same time, filed a registration
statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission covering a
proposed offering in the United States of $110 million (U.S.) of
senior secured notes.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  May 18, 1994

    BOISE, Idaho -- Boise Cascade Corporation (NYSE:BCC)
announced today that its wholly owned Canadian subsidiary,
Rainy River Forest Products Inc., formerly named Boise Cascade
Canada Ltd., has filed a preliminary prospectus in Canada for
an initial public offering of equity securities and
concurrently has filed a registration statement with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission covering a proposed
offering in the United States of $110 million (U.S.) of senior
secured notes.
    Following completion of the offerings, Boise Cascade is
expected to hold slightly less than 50 percent of Rainy
River's voting securities but to continue to hold more than
50 percent of its equity. 
    As previously announced, the majority of Boise Cascade's
newsprint and uncoated groundwood paper businesses are being
combined in Rainy River.  This structure is intended to
establish Rainy River as an independently managed Canadian
company which has its own access to financial markets and can
fund its future capital requirements.
    The equity securities of Rainy River will not be
registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933 and
may not be offered or sold in the United States except
pursuant to an applicable exemption from registration
requirements.
    The registration statement relating to the senior secured
notes of Rainy River has been filed with the U.S. Securities
and Exchange Commission but has not yet become effective.  The
senior secured notes may not be sold, nor may offers to buy
be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement
becomes effective.  This press release shall not constitute
an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor
shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in
which such offers, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful
prior to the registration or qualification under the
securities laws of any such state.
    Boise Cascade Corporation is an integrated paper and
forest products company headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with
operations located in the United States and Canada.  The
company manufactures and distributes paper and paper products,
office products, and building products and owns and manages
timberland to support these operations.